Advent Calendar: Women in Mythology

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Across
  1. 1. Phoenician princess whose name becomes synonymous with a continent after she's kidnapped by Zeus in the form of a bull
  2. 4. Artificial woman crafted by Hephaestus, her curiosity releases calamities on the mortal world
  3. 6. Queen whose encounter with a swan results in eggs producing both mortal and divine offspring
  4. 8. Tragic heroine who defies a royal edict and provides proper burial rites for her family
  5. 10. Princess imprisoned to prevent prophecy, she was impregnated by Zeus in the form of golden rain
  6. 11. Weaver whose tapestry exposed divine scandals, provoking Minerva's wrath and and her own transformation
  7. 14. Maiden who defeated suitors in footraces until distracted by golden apples
  8. 15. Amazon leader mourned by Achilles after he kills her
  9. 18. Olympian messenger who travels via rainbows and often appears bearing a pitcher of water from the Styx
  10. 19. A victim of human sacrifice, she was killed to appease Artemis
  11. 20. Ariadne's sister, Pasiphae's daughter, and Theseus' wife
  12. 21. Laurel nymph whose transformation explains Apollo’s sacred plant
  13. 23. Bride lost twice — once to a snakebite, once to a backward glance
Down
  1. 2. Mortal bride of a God, she was punished with trials for having disobeyed her husband
  2. 3. Ethiopian princess chained to a rock as atonement for her mother's hubris
  3. 5. Elderly hostess rewarded with a shared metamorphosis and a priesthood after welcoming gods in disguise
  4. 7. Granddaughter of Helios, she is a powerful and dangerous sorceress willing to do whatever it takes
  5. 8. Abandoned by Theseus after helping him, later immortalized as a constellation after marriage to Dionysus
  6. 9. Prophetic daughter of Priam cursed so no one believes her, who foresaw both the Wooden Horse and her own captivity
  7. 12. Companion of Artemis who was transformed into a bear and constellation
  8. 13. Cretan queen who fell in love with a bull
  9. 15. Survivor of the great flood who repopulated humanity by casting stones over her shoulder
  10. 16. Boastful mother punished through the annihilation of her lineage
  11. 17. Married to a Trojan prince, she watched her son get thrown from the walls of Troy and was forced to marry Achilles' son
  12. 22. Queen of Sparta, her face launched a thousand ships